Middle, High School Introduction to Art Beginning Drawing: Contour Line Unit

This beginning drawing unit is geared towards upper elementary, middle, and high school art students. I teach it as the first art unit of the year in my Introduction to Art course, it teaches an important technical base for other drawing techniques to build off of.

Teach a well-rounded visual art unit on the contour line using these three drawing-based lesson plans. Designed for middle and high school art students, these lessons introduce the concept of focusing on lines and shapes, rather than the object, drawing from life, and drawing an in-depth, realistic contour line drawing.

This contour line unit includes three lessons:

✴Introduction to drawing:

➢Lesson plan with big idea, objectives, national standards, supply list, vocabulary, step-by-step teachers instructions, and more.

➢Presentation on learning how to draw what you see, not what you know

➢2 printable face/vase worksheets

➢3 upside down drawing worksheets

➢Assignment checklist

✴Contour lines and drawing from life:

➢Lesson plan with big idea, objectives, national standards, supply list, vocabulary, step-by-step teachers instructions, and more.

➢3 presentations to start each day to walk students through the activities

➢Drawing activities that include blind contours, contour drawings of objects, and large scale shoe and skull drawings

➢Drawing activity checklist

➢Shoe and skull drawing rubric

✴Final contour drawing backpack project:

➢Lesson plan with big idea, objectives, national standards, supply list, vocabulary, step-by-step teachers instructions, and more.

➢Project PowerPoint

➢Backpack drawing rubric

This drawing unit is also included in my yearlong Introduction to Art bundle. With this pack you don't have to plan a single day of the school year in your Intro to Art class.

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